Over the years, cloud pricing has grown to be very complicated. AWS alone publishes pricing across hundreds of services, each with dozens of instance types, storage tiers, data transfer rates, licensing models, and regional variations. Azure and Google Cloud aren’t far behind. If you subscribe to their notifications, you’ll likely get dozens of emails about…
Here is a number that surprises people: the ICT sector, which includes data centers, networks, and devices, produces roughly 1.5 to 4 percent of worldwide greenhouse gas emissions. That puts it in the same range as the aviation industry. 😱 Engineers are in a unique position to collectively decarbonize millions of tonnes of Co2 from…
On December 2nd 2025, AWS announced that RDS for SQL Server now supports M7i and R7i instances with up to 55% lower prices than previous generation equivalents. If you provisioned an RDS SQL Server database last month, you made a reasonable decision with the information available. Today, that same decision might be costing you 55%…
Most security scanners treat infrastructure-as-code like any other codebase: pattern matching, regex rules, surface-level checks. But infrastructure code isn’t like application code. Variables reference other variables. Modules pull in external dependencies. A single Terraform code block might expand into dozens of cloud resources, after evaluation, across different environments. We’ve spent years building deep parsing for…
Here’s something we keep seeing: an engineer grabs Terraform code from their last project, makes a few tweaks, and ships. The code works. The infrastructure deploys. Everyone moves on. Six months later, finance asks why the cloud bill spiked. The culprit? That “working” code used a database version that’s now in extended support. Or storage…
When engineers choose AWS CDK, they’re making a bet on unification. One language for their application code and their infrastructure. TypeScript all the way down, or Python from Lambda to load balancer. It’s an elegant proposition. But until now, that choice came with a trade-off: the cost visibility that Terraform teams take for granted simply…
AWS Cloud Spend and AWS Budgets allow AWS users to monitor cloud spend after it’s already been deployed. This presents issues for engineering teams that are steeped in AWS CloudFormation — do they optimize after deployment and slow engineering teams down, or simply accept cloud waste? Now, organizations that rely on CloudFormation can proactively reduce cloud costs before each…
Large enterprises struggle to scale FinOps governance. With tens of thousands of applications spread across business units, product families, and thousands of engineers, cost issues are scattered across code repos; making it nearly impossible to see the full picture. Today we’re introducing Issue Explorer – enterprise reporting that gives FinOps and business leaders clear visibility into where…
A key question at this year’s FinOpsX conference was: what does “AI for FinOps” really mean? Today, we’re answering that with the general availability of AutoFix pull requests for GitHub. Infracost doesn’t just prevent new cost issues anymore, it now opens AI-powered pull requests to fix existing ones. Engineers can remediate issues 10x faster and at scale,…
Since launching Infracost in 2021, we’ve been pulled by engineers who all want to Shift FinOps Left. Today, we’re taking a major leap forward. We’re announcing five powerful new features designed to help engineers proactively find and fix cloud cost issues, including bringing rightsizing recommendations into the workflow. These features lay the foundation for a new…
Happy New Year 🎉 We’re excited to kick off 2025 with the latest Infracost updates! New Graviton policies for EC2, ECS and Lambda Last year, many enterprises used Infracost’s Graviton policies for RDS, ElastiCache, and OpenSearch to achieve significant cost savings. Migrating these managed AWS services to Graviton proved to be low-effort and low-risk, thanks to AWS’…
With autumn in full swing, we’re excited to bring you the latest Infracost updates! If you are attending the FinOps X conference in Barcelona, stop by the Infracost booth to grab a pair of Infracost socks and see what Shifting FinOps Left actually looks like in a live demo. Introducing Issue Explorer We wrote a…